Satellite A45-S250 : How to use Recovery CD if DVD Drive is not working

Hi all ,
First , appologize for my english , i'm a french guy :)
So my problem is that i would like to re-install everything on a A45-S250 by using the recovery CD.
But the main problem is that the internal DVD drive is not running anymore.
I've try by plugging an external DVD drive, but the laptop don't want to boot on it.
I've seen that it can boot through a floppy drive, lan, or SD card. But with theses possibilities , how to be able to reinstall everything include in the recovery CD ?
I may have a usb floppy drive, so i'll be able to boot on a disk boot. but then how to start the recovery CD procedure ?
I'll prefer to use the recovery CD as a WinXP home standart, cause i know that the OEM serial won't work to a Original version of WinXP ...
Thanks for your help !
Kubs

Hi
If you want to use the Recovery CD then you would need a bootable CD/DVD drive.
Fact is that you would be not able to boot from a USB CD/DVD drive or its not possible to copy the whole stuff on the SD card and then to boot
You need an internal CD/DVD drive or external CD/DVD drive which could be connected to the PCMCIA port
For me only these two possibilities could work!

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